My bad, I apologize.... I didnt even know what hotlinking was.....
Why is it bad?
Well, in our case our forum can be closed by the (forum)host. In other cases, forums that aren't hosted by another party can be fined large sums of money (from the sites that host the image and are paying for the bandwidth to do so).
I guess to be more specific-hotlinking from any site other than a site that allows you specifically to host the image (photobucket, imageshack, tinypic, flickr) is bad in general. I guess some owners of the sites that forbade hotlinking would "repay" the "thieves" by unknowingly changing the images to very disturbing and offensive images-which would show up on the forum and get those members banned as well.
(About Q's package) Willydigger:
"Is it mailed? Did you mail it? Where's the tracking? I'm pretty excited. I hope he cries. Think he'll cry? What a bitch."
"Q is an asshole, but he's so dumb I feel like hugging him all the time."
-Willydonker
"I'm waiting for Digiorno to cook. Three meat, stuffed crust. It's not delivery, but no place delivers here. So. "